Merry Christmas!!!

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Merry Christmas to all! Wish you all the best!

Winter Party

My kids had a blast at the party today.

Santa and GJ

Santa , KC and I

 KC was wearing a Christmasy dress but she had a stomach problem and throw-up all over her and me. She was wearing no pants and GJ's sweat shirt when meeting with Santa.

Thank you very much to the Atherton's Family for sponsoring the party.

Doing great and storynory

Update: Being sick

Gerald Jay has been feeling real well, although he have problem of soft stool ( which he always have been). Anyway, about the urination problem, he is now urinating normal again...thanks God! I don't have to call the doctor. So far so good!

Storynory online reading with audio

Last black Friday, I met a nice lady at Joann's store as I was choosing some crafts shape (e.g. flower, boat and etc) whatever that called. I told her that I was going to use those shape to teach my son to recognize the shape and that way he can say the word at the same time while the object is there in front of him. The nice lady took the boat shaped off of my hand and told me that " get different kinds of boats. I am a special ed teacher too so I know how to teach special ed students". I was just happy to know that because she gave me lots of ideas to teach my child. She had a lot of information of hoe to get my child catch-up in the real toddler world. She was an angel ! Her name was Freda. I thank her very much for sharing ideas of how to teach my child. So, tonight I sat GJ on my lap and get this stoynory with audio (shared by Freda) and he was listening until it finished. I will do this kind of story telling every night with both of my kids.

Have a great night everyone!

Being sick!

Every parents worried when their kids are sick. As a parent , when my kids are sick I always wish that I am the one who get sick instead of them. Couple days ago, my little girl was throwing up for no reasons. I was really surprised and my surprises turned into a worried state. Anyway, she was puking the whole day and not wanting any food. When she asked for water, she will throw-up as soon it hit her stomach. So, I was so worried that GJ might get what she has. Yup! He did! He was throwing -up to and granting the whole night. I didn't send him to school since he didn't get any sleep at all. Fortunately, the following day GJ and Kathlyn was feeling a whole lot better. They played together and even go out the backyard and swung. Anyway, Gj was fine BUT he was not urinating as he have been in the past. He is on the diuretics and when we give that meds he normally pee more after an hour. So, that is our concerns now. We are watching him closely and sorry to say that I am paranoid about GJ's health. So far, he is urinating a little bit and if that did not change tonight...tomorrow I am taking him to the doctor. I will post update soon!

Christmas Photos

Yesterday, I took my family back in Glendale area to take some picture for my Christmas cards. My kids were just not cooperating with us the whole time, and I have to make some thing funny to catch thier attention. They were running all over the place, and when we call them the more they run away from us. I have to use tripod and timer to take some photos and I took over a 100 photos only these were look nice and acceptable after cropping. Anyway, I hope you guys have a wonderful week ahead!

Cardiology Appointment

After three months it was time for GJ to visit his cardiologist Dr. N. It was harder to get a good reading of his EKG because GJ decided to check what is going on, and he was a little bit anxious to get it done and play. He maintained his weight of 36 lbs which is good. He also cheated a little bit when taking his height, but I gave the nurse a heads-up that he will cheat and tip-toe later. He actually did cheat and if the nurse didn't watch the scale going up very slow we would even noticed it, I think it was funny hahaha. Blood pressure from the right side of his extremities are normal, but we could get a good reading on his left side again he was anxious to go and play again. GJ O2 went up to 99% again, and we're just happy to see his numbers and pinkish toes and fingers.

When Dr. Nowlen came in to the room he was just amazed how well he looked. Us too were excited to tell him how great his progress over few months after the heart cath. Dr. N thought that it will not be possible to close the fenestration that they put during the fontan procedure. But I they did closed it and Gj has been doing so well even since. PINKISH color of his fingers and toes! GJ will be off some medications in few months and will leave three kinds of medication for the rest of his life. So far we have seven different kinds of meds. I am quite excited for him to get off some of them. 

He will be seeing the cardiologist in six month window now! Yehey! Anyway, overall, it was another great visit and Dr. Nowlen was happy to see him progressing well. 

THANKS A LOT DR. NOWLEN